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Artificial General Intelligence - (MIT Press Essential Knowledge) by Julian Togelius (Paperback)
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- How to make AI capable of general intelligence, and what such technology would mean for society.
- About the Author: Julian Togelius is Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at New York University and a cofounder of the game AI startup modl.ai.
- 240 Pages
- Computers + Internet, Intelligence (AI) & Semantics
- Series Name: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
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About the Book
"Explores the current state of Artificial General Intelligence and what the future might hold"--Book Synopsis
How to make AI capable of general intelligence, and what such technology would mean for society.Artificial intelligence surrounds us. More and more of the systems and services you interact with every day are based on AI technology. Although some very recent AI systems are generalists to a degree, most AI is narrowly specific; that is, it can only do a single thing, in a single context. For example, your spellchecker can't do mathematics, and the world's best chess-playing program can't play Tetris. Human intelligence is different. We can solve a variety of tasks, including those we have not seen before. In Artificial General Intelligence, Julian Togelius explores technical approaches to developing more general artificial intelligence and asks what general AI would mean for human civilization. Togelius starts by giving examples of narrow AI that have superhuman performance in some way. Interestingly, there have been AI systems that are superhuman in some sense for more than half a century. He then discusses what it would mean to have general intelligence, by looking at definitions from psychology, ethology, and computer science. Next, he explores the two main families of technical approaches to developing more general artificial intelligence: foundation models through self-supervised learning, and open-ended learning in virtual environments. The final chapters of the book investigate potential artificial general intelligence beyond the strictly technical aspects. The questions discussed here investigate whether such general AI would be conscious, whether it would pose a risk to humanity, and how it might alter society.
About the Author
Julian Togelius is Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at New York University and a cofounder of the game AI startup modl.ai.Dimensions (Overall): 7.0 Inches (H) x 5.0 Inches (W) x .7 Inches (D)
Weight: .44 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Series Title: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
Sub-Genre: Intelligence (AI) & Semantics
Genre: Computers + Internet
Number of Pages: 240
Publisher: MIT Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Julian Togelius
Language: English
Street Date: September 24, 2024
TCIN: 90515093
UPC: 9780262549349
Item Number (DPCI): 247-43-9892
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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